Path 2

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‘MATA Festival’

April 27, 2011

Co-founded by compositional giant Philip Glass, this year’s MATA festival sifted through nearly 500 submitted scores from under-40 composers around the world to present a veritable Tower of Babel of contemporary classical music. A bellwether of shifting tides in the genre’s current scene–having helped launch the careers of Nico Muhly, Lukas Ligeti, and Annie Gosfield–MATA moves beyond the pale of mainstream institutions, a diverse summit of cosmopolitan voices continuing a lively musical conversation. Think Wagner with laptop-driven electronica. This year just might get Stockhausen rolling in his grave.